Lois Kagan Mingus, co-founder of Action Racket Theatre, has been a member of
The Living Theatre since 1988, appearing in dozens of productions in New York,
Europe and Latin America. She is also an Artistic Associate and Board Member with
the company.
Lois works in film and TV and performs regularly with DADAnewyork and The Wycherly
Systers. In Boston, she performed in the celebrated Boston Children’s Museum
theatre company and was a member of the visionary Craft Experimental Theatre.
Her work, Refugee Camp Shtima, received Honorable Mention in
the Lamia Ink! International One-Page Play Festival and her writings and
poetry have been published in Evergreen Review,
Maintenant and Western States Theater
Review.
Lois has been seen in such diverse productions as Fiddler on the Roof
and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She appeared on the
Rosie O’Donnell Show as Angelika Rugrat and performed as Tweety Bird for Warner Brothers.
She is co-founder of The Living Theatre Workshops, presenting nationally as well as outside the
U.S. Lois was a guest artist at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum’s meeting in Minnesota, speaking
on using theatre as a tool for social change. In addition to being an Irene Ryan Judge at the
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Lois is listed in Who's Who
in Entertainment in America.
Joanie Fritz Zosike
Co-Founder/Director, Joanie Fritz Zosike (photo by Ashley Marinaccio)
Joanie Fritz Zosike is a solo performer, veteran member of The Living Theatre in several
productions in the U.S. and abroad, and guest performer with Teatro Alfieri di Asti,
The Wycherley Systers, Alchemical Theatre, Co-Op Theatre East and in a recent production of
Days of the Commune, directed by multimedia artist Zoe Beloff.
In New York she has held theatre residencies at Bellevue Hospital and Grand Street Settlement,
and has been a workshop presenter in universities from Stuttgart to Sofia and Sarajevo to Quito.
Composer/lyricist of the children’s musical, Lily Frog and Friends,
produced at the Las Palmas Theatre in Los Angeles, she also co-authored And
Then the Heavens Closed at The Jewish Museum in New York City, funded in part by a grant
from the National Foundation of Jewish Culture.
Her writing has appeared in such publications as At the Edge,
clockwise.wordpress.com,
Have a NYC Anthology, Heresies,
Levure Literraire, Maintenant
and Silver Birch Anthology. Zosike has written, composed and
performed solo works including Harpies Complex (U.S., Germany,
Bulgaria), Soph and the Limitless Light (Germany, New York
and DC) and Ereshkigal’s Peg (Franklin Furnace
and La MaMa La Galleria), and co-authored a multimedia theatre scenario,
Séance to Raise the Spirit of Cabaret Voltaire with
filmmaker Olga Mazurkiewicz, performed at Anthology Film Archive, Theater for the
New City and AC/DC Space in Washington, DC.
Joanie served as Managing Director of The Living Theatre. As well as being an actor in the
DADA/surrealist theatre company, DADAnewyork, she also serves as its co-director. She is on
the board of New York City People’s Life Fund, a member of Theaters Against War (THAW)
and NYC War Resisters League.
